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UNi'rnn STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

CHARLES S. GOODING, OF BOSTON, AND ROBERT L. ELLERY, OF TAUNTON, ASSIGNORS TO THE MORLEY BUTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF AND MACHINE FOR MAKING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,376, dated September 8, 1891. Application filed December 12, 1890. Serial No. 374,516. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern; struction and combination of parts constitut- Be it known that we, CHARLES S. GOODING, ing or comprised in said instrumentalities, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, also as will hereinafter more fully appear and and ROBERT L. ELLERY, residing at Taunton, be identified by the claims.

5 in the county of Bristol, and State of Massa- Reference is to be had to theaccompanying chusetts, citizens of the United States, have drawings, forming part of this specification, invented new and useful Improvements in wherein similar characters of reference indi- Methods of and Machines for Making Butcate corresponding parts in all the views. tons, of which the followingis a specification. Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine.

[0 This invention relates to improvements in Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; and Fig. 2

machines for making shank buttons,particuis a horizontal section indetail on line 2 2, 6o larly shoe-buttons, the heads or bodies there- Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the maof being formed of papier-mach or other chine. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section of suitable compressible material, and identified the machine, taken from front to rear thereof 15 with the instrumentalities hereinafter set or 011 the plane indicated by line 4 4, Fig. 1.

forth, and in detail described there is an im- Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the machine, provement in the process or method of formtaken on the line 4 4*, Fig. 1. All the remaining a button. ing figures are on larger scales. Fig. 5 is an en- The object of the improved method is to larged plan view of the mechanism forfeeding 20 form a button which is most perfect and acthe wire, asupporting portion of the frame or curate in shape, and as to the engagement of castingbeingshown inhorizontalsection. Fig. the eye-shank with the head is of unusual Gisaside elevation of the said wire-feed mechstrength. The advantage of a strong button anism. Fig. 7 isaplan view of the mechanism is obvious, and it is particularly important for feeding the strip of stock material, the sup- 25 to produce buttons which are absolutely alike port for the upper roll being removed. Fig. 8

and accurate, the eye-shank in one button is a side elevation of the paper-feed mechanalways being in exactly the same arrangeism. Fig. 9 is an enlarged section in detail ment and engagement with the button-head on line 0 9. Figs. 8 and 9 is a sectional as in another when the buttons are to be elevation on line b b, Fig. 7. Fig. 10 is aseco sewed onto the boots or shoes or other fabric tional elevation of said paper-feed mechanism by automatic machinery, as is possible under on line 10 10, Fig. 2. Fig. 11 is a section on So the use of certain machines well known in line 11 11, Fig. 8, through the feed-roll. Fig. th t ade, 2 is a front elevation of the wire cutting and The improved method consists, essentially, bending mechanism; and Fig. 13 is a sectional 5 in providing an eye-shank having the legs elevation of the same on line 13 13, Fig. 12.

thereof slightly separated or deflected and Fig. 14 is a central vertical section of said supporting and iinmovably confining same mechanism on line 14 14, Fig. 13. Fig. 15 is with relation to said support, then forcing a horizontal cross-section on-line1 5 15, Fig. the papier-mach or stock material upon and 12. Fig. 16 is a cross-section on line'16 1 6,Fig..

0 about the legs of the eye-shank, molding and 14. Figs. 17 and 18 are respectively front and compressing by suitable dies the button-head, side elevations of one of thejaws for bending and, finally, at substantially the instant of the the wire. Fig. 10 isa rear elevation of the wire completion of the molding and compressing cutting and bending mechanism. Fig. 20 is operation, severing that portion of the stock a front elevation of one of the button-forming 5 m aterial from which the button-head isforined dies and its guiding and carrying mechanism.

from the supply strip or sheet. Fig. 21 is an end view of the die. Fig, 221

The'invention further consists in the coma vertical section on line 22 22, Fig. 20. Fig. bination of certain coacting mechanisms or 23 is a vertical cross-section on line 23 23, Fig. instrumentalitics and in the particular con- 20. Fig. 2iisa cross-section through aportion 

